Not to mention that Noivern has to rely on Air Slash flinches, inaccurate Hurricanes, or unstabbed Boomburst - Hurricane isn't even a guaranteed 2HKO, not that it'll even have a chance bar some lucky confusion. Air Slash does 32.9 - 39.3% while Boomburst never 2HKOes. Sadly, Weavile Ice Punch has a very high chance of OHKOing, but that is virtually the only thing I have to worry about. Looks like I'll be going with the > Greninja spread for regular Battle Spot then. Thanks again fellas!
I wouldn't bother worrying about shaymin-s. It isn't allowed in regular battle spot, and you can't use it in any tournaments because it automatically reverts into land forme when you put it in your battle box. (I know, I've tried)
Up to you, the only relevant things that Adamant Gatr can't outspeed at +1 while Jolly can are Mega Manectric and Lopunny. Edit: Also Mega Gengar
Well at +1, Gatr's speed can range from 195-214 depending on nature, in this Bracket are: Mega Gengar / Crobat / Aerodactyl / Jolteon (200), Mega Manectric / Mega Lopunny (205), and Electrode / Accelgor (211)... I would recommend going Jolly with 220 speed EVs to get the jump on Mega Manectric at +1 (you can ohko with EQ), this also allows you to beat adamant Dragonite and adamant Excadrill (and other neutral base 80s). Unboosted, you sit between 130-143 which contains: Mega Ttar (135) and Heatran (141) so you can adjust to beat those. The jolly 220 spread I suggested hits 138 at +0 so you still beat Mega Ttar...
I have my phsical defensive avalugg for that. Superpower 3hkos and uninvested avalanche ohkos back or you can go for recover and recover the hp back if you predict a switch into ferrothorn or something.
Mega Venusaur is pretty reliable to check it and many other physical attackers. Slowbro can work too, I don't think it takes too much from U-turn or Knock Off, especially if mega.
Defensive rotom-w is a pretty safe switchin, to both scarf & defensive landos. Being u-turned on can be annoying but yeah, any lando switch in has to deal with that.
Probably way late since a lot of people gave good answers, but I noticed physically defensive trace eviolite porygon2 is in a similar situation, it can freely switch in and intimidate lando, recover (or twave anticipating a switch), and 2hko it. (I'm running this atm; download lets it ohko but it has to be almost fully physically invested to make superpower 3hko)
Well, keep in mind that Superpower drops lando's attack by 1. So you won't need max def to avoid the 2hko.
good point lol I completely forgot that too :P
I used to have this problem then I started to take pictures of the teams on my phone and keep it handy beside me. If for some reason you don't have a phone you could always write what they have down on a little notepad or something. A lot of VGC players do that, among other notes, while playing in tournaments.
Dialga is the first one that comes to mind as it's a pretty potent Trick Room setter, can beat Fairies and has an immunity to sandstorm damage; other than that, Druddigon makes for a decent abuser thanks to it's slowness (48 base speed iirc, I didn't check) and access to neat things like Sheer Force, Sucker Punch and Gunk Shot. Most other Dragons are pretty fast or else don't have a lot of utility under Trick Room, but if I think of anything else I'll edit it in here. For future reference, though, this might be a more pertinent question to ask in the dedicated Dragon Cup thread - we normally have a thread that goes up whenever these competitions are announced :]
Yeah saw that after I asked the question but didn't wanna spam it :P
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Thanks, yeah it seems like I have totally forgotten about the website part of the registration ^^'
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